weixiyen

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by weixiyen 9y ago
Slack has great UI but the app just feels sluggish compared to Discord, esp initial load times.
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by weixiyen 9y ago
No shame in being Microsoft to Snap's Apple.
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by weixiyen 9y ago
> only holds if the replacement FBI Director drops the investigation I think everyone can easily think of another scenario where the implication of the original comment still holds true. Want to take a stab?
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by weixiyen 9y ago
Wouldn't even talk to them. Try to find ways to observe in a passive manner instead. If you are making software for restaurants, go sit at the restaurant during peak and off hours, and be keen about what's actually going on, down
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by weixiyen 9y ago
Thanks Jan. Will there be support for websockets?
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Technically the passenger is in a private space when the plane is in flight as well. Can I remove him without reasonable cause? Probably not. I wonder at what point it's okay to remove a passenger when they paid for boarding, sat in
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Not trying to argue about languages, but Slack is not a good example of a great technical product - backend wise. It's bloated, slow, can't support cases with too many users, and makes way too many requests just to initialize.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Job hopping early on in your career to maximize your baseline salary won't affect your career. What may affect your career is the opportunity cost of picking the wrong company (esp Startups) if you had a choice, and the one you didn&#
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by weixiyen 10y ago
I agree with you. The truth is, the high performers meet the deadlines with ease, and go beyond them pretty much effortlessly the majority of the time, so holding them accountable doesn't make them scared, it gives them a platform to f
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by weixiyen 10y ago
New mobile-first products should consider GraphQL over REST. There's a lot of benefits that you will probably end up doing yourself in a bastardized version of REST anyways, like field restrictions and multiplexing multiple unrelated
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by weixiyen 10y ago
nobody has asked me that because this normally happens within the typical 3-hour interview scope, but honestly that's fine too
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by weixiyen 10y ago
> Do you want to see someone who did an EMT course at a local community college and hit the basic highlights of how to treat different symptoms I'd ask the 2 doctors to perform the exact treatment on their own kids, look at the outc
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by weixiyen 10y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the 3 algorithms on whiteboard interview is generally worthless for determining an engineer's on-the-job performance. Instead, "Build X in 1-2 hours using your computer and resources available
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by weixiyen 10y ago
> I have a hard time believing HR really behaved the way they are portrayed in that article. It's easily believable. I've seen worse. The author has a lot to lose by putting something like that out there. > only last in jo
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Even if this wasn't Uber, it's totally believable.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
not always, these things are normally drawn out and end up in settlements because HR could have done just enough to stay within the bounds of what is legal. Technically they did not fire her, only made her life difficult and perhaps did no
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by weixiyen 10y ago
> if everything in here is true Uber would have already sued her if it wasn't. It's almost certainly true.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
One potential downside is disk space. If you actually want to retain all records, that's going to be an order of magnitude more space if your workload is update-heavy. If it's primarily inserts not a big deal. The other potentia
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by weixiyen 10y ago
You can't re-use the UI portion but all the business logic, API calls, stores, socket connections, etc... For Sleeperbot it's 50% code-sharing between desktop / mobile, and then 95% between iOS & Android.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Instagram is the last group that would have problems hiring iOS and Android developers. I'm almost certain that's not the reason for the switch to React Native. The main reason to switch is that the user cannot tell the differenc
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by weixiyen 10y ago
but the camera is on the other side so it's literally impossible
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Next season there will be. It'll actually be a full fantasy platform that hosts season-long leagues as well.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Just anecdotal evidence but I've been running Elixir in production for half a year now for an app called Sleeperbot (95% of our backend is written in Elixir) Our websocket endpoints, our app servers, and other services all run on Elixi
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by weixiyen 10y ago
> Most people need the discipline of having to show up in a physical classroom Went to UC Berkeley and literally did not show up to class except for finals. Nobody forces you to go to class when you hit a 4 year institution, esp public
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Could be his software sucks, or could be that he put it on a single node somewhere on a tiny VPS and he hit some sort of limit by his provider. Not fair to draw any conclusions imo.
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Really doubt that based on those questions. Recruiters are human and fallible. They form opinions about people, sometimes incorrect, and act on those opinions all the time. This phone screen is the final step before they lose control of
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Agree with everything you said... but I find it not applicable to this particular candidate given his answers. It's possible that he got frustrated, became condescending towards the recruiter, and the recruiter decided to screen him ou
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by weixiyen 10y ago
Hmm, I think that's probably the least important question right now. I want to know: - is it 1 million returning daily users, or 1 million registered users? - percentage of their registered users in the past month that come back every
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by weixiyen 10y ago
I actually meant more along the lines of if you already have 2 very successful iOS and Android apps and a process to release quickly and you've already found real meaningful traction. In this case, the cost of switching is probably no
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by weixiyen 10y ago
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